Most parents only get a glimpse of what their tweens do online. If you are lucky, you might notice or discover an extra TikTok account with “privat” in the name, or hear them mention a “finsta” you didn’t even know existed.
Some kids keep one account for family and school, another for close friends, and sometimes even a third for things they’d rather hide. Add in disappearing messages on Snapchat or WhatsApp, private browsers that erase history, or group chats with their own slang and rules, an